Show r I 1 w Science Hopes They May Be f 1 i q Tra i ed t Gather Fruit and D tr 3 Other Useful Work as The ti tin n r i d dk dt t d sr q k I d Were in Ancient Egypt yF k ka a k xa f ll t Wall painting ps from an ancient Egyptian tomb showing 1 t i q a monkeys fathering figs a job for which they were wera cape i dally daIly well fitted ince since the branches of the tree would not l a j s l lri ri ss i J beat bear a man mans man's weight Note how both the tho monkeys notA A J t h tl r ra s r i 1 x xa fruit the matters a which r are sampling tome of tho ilia fruit or baskets f I a S it ita a a T e s sJ J E t t tare lack into waiting to pack are 4 t i w d bJ l B AN chimpanzees oran oran and amI CAN C other members mm of the ape farol family bP bi trained to take mens men's md and women's job 9 Is it possible to touch teach them to work for forus forus forus us in an our home homes and on our farms farms on our railroads and in mines tune and thus relieve the shortage e and help cut down the cost coat of mg tiling Th These There e are arc qu questions which Ill nill never cease to fascinate science And Md which It m till mil continue to most thought thought- thoughtfully thoughtfully fully until th they y am are settled s s one way or another In the cit cit of ot Wn Washington Pro Pro- Professor Professor fessor Lessor Robert M Yerkes erkes is devoting him turn himself himself self sel to a study of just lust what human ac- ac ac activities two young chimpanzees can bo trained to assume and he is only ono one of many in various parts of the world who arc are engaged in an sImilar InvestigatIons In a scientific magazine not long ago Professor r E W Gudger of the Amet scan Mu Museum Mu cum of Natural History men men- mentioned mentioned the possibility of using monkeys to help gather ather the cotton crop in m r a aMany the Southern states Many t Many of his fellow f H scientists sCIentists were high high- lIgh y x ly Iy amused at the j mere suggestion of j what they thought such an absurdity but now they are obliged to admit 1 that they perhaps were too ready w the t h e i r incredulous laughter 1 Follo the ap 1 rte of f t ty y sor Bor Gudger's article p several in inthe k rp the Far FarE East lilt wrote the tha magazine to t tell tellof l of their own kno I edg edge of the Way i w x t r it hJ Fh v x a f y t J r t l t I r 1 i 1 t Jf r r rv it t f 1 t tR t R Yi t tY J J i Yn r ti f t r i v tY tYr r t tr r fl ti H i 4 4 i 6 r t q 4 bl yr ti v 1 J lr y w wA f 1 11 l c tt p t tt ff w y f k I gr 4 A tomb parotiD paint g showing i I 1 po Ji lri l y tt p t tRi Ri 1 1 n f fow h how ow the Egyptians of thousands of v I It t L a errs ago trained monkeys to climb w k f tr J Ji i s sa J a orf l JV-l r r J i P N f 9 i 1 fj t pam pa m trees and drop the coconuts uw s v y g k r y l fN t s ft d A y into the waiting hands belOW below The Y Yinto i 91 WJ j s v t g r i k Park L t J is iw r y rV put work played is a mystery by the the giraffe Egyptologists m in this i mr f S hAve yet to dear clear up up t I SV fr m 1 t c tj j i l Another famous traveler to the Far w East Pehr declares declare in m Its his Voy t tage age to China that he had heard beard that m in Sy y W China used I S a 11 monkeys W were to gather I 1 e y T y rhubarb and pound rice N j f S Olfert Dapper who published a book k t OT I ft on Africa more than years ago ago A Ar r y yr r rl II I t t has the tho following to say oily ay in his de- de del dev deW dea de-a de g 1 a l i ir v vu y 1 l I fi u of Sierra Leone j S iSi W la a y gr r 1 r t i iV V N I s 1 tl J Three kinds of monkeys lire are found t 1 and there is ofa of certain here r j t one a 1 y i y 1 J it bJ I J i 1 til ff species they call Baris Basis Baris which they rt r st i l I i I 4 b n ry it catch when little little raise and train so sos l V W t p 1 well that thai these monkey can give almost s v i J lw t 1 F s I J ras r as much service as slaves Ordinarily I walk walk- J T o f y they quito quite erect like 11 1 I i t tl- tl p f men They can c grind millet in m the mora mor mor- mortar rt tw a t 1 t e ij s sr r U so sotar tar and go to draw drav water in n a Il pitcher tl t 1 Yi i M Me 1 i h a it When they fall faIl down they show their rhea 1 S f R Rr r iI f j t t u IV f iI J 1 Jam pain by crIes cries The They know r 4 it I d q t m 4 o T a i S now how to turn tum t the b e spit and andl L y K Ky rr r r 4 t y n f ti iP f ay yi l to do a Il thousand clever 1 j I i t 1 t t r t rt s i Laay CT 1 hUe litia tricks which greatly a J Ii y ry abr- abr abri i r f t tf A f their IlL t 4 1 amuse masters R 4 o r y Rd d All these and other otherA I k A highly intelligent baboon tenderly carrying g gro moro more ro or less veracious a ac- ac aa a J littia baboon in basket and suggesting the counts of ol the use of apes a rI 7 lit S1 s tr t oa nYry a r f rf Bf rj 1 1 4 5 1 1 pos possibility of apes being g used to care for fer as laborers in in various t tx J i 1 u Rr J 1 f 2 i human children parts of th the tha world orld are an ares s r rt f x t M oI f fi iii k e pre presented by Professor monkeys are aro rained Pf and stages ess t b ens to pi pick coconuts and awl A Win going up in n surly fashion looking do other kinds o of oft i X ii t b as r round at inter inter- inter ork jS W 9 x ap k c s 0 tn kink ink gals als and shak shaking The Malas and andI r p bay S 'S s e ing his chain an- an nn-enly nn I ib Batata Bataka of Sumatra r rr rs s f fiz s R i Y t x l gulp r commonly use H Ha a 4 When he g gotto of monkeys once s as C coco coca fir 1 to the top he heP nut P ors says tays w a ss 1 r a eta tl shook the fronds Carl D b LA Rue Ruo R 1 y i v and stalks but writing from Kiss Kua q o nuts fell and ran Sur Sumatra Su- Su r q sal salt t h he chose a ripe r mats matra In fact the w d dx one and twisted current English n Ii h Jr r g s gy J Jit it round and 1 name for the species Cies I M d Cf rast S s K w rid round till its of ot monkey known i t S is r ras tenacious fibers E as acmes nemes- How a chimpanzee would look in your kitchen preparing towed to wed 1 t tf gave way and minus trinus ia Is coconut coconut serve a meal then threw d l monkey r and began beean enc monkeys B not only work but butha butha here ha e a considerable commercial value as laborers The pOC of A a trained coco coco- coco coco- coconut coconut nut monkey ranges from about eight to toas toas toas as high as twenty dollars This is n a aprice aprice price far above that put upon other com com- common common common mon sorts of monkeys which are arc kept only V aj pets pet Coconut monkeys grow to a conSIder conSIder- conSIderable consider able able size and aw aro vcr very strong Another witness who gives similar tes- tes testimony ttA is Robert Rob rt W C C Shelford the distinguished Eng English sh traveler and nat nat- naturalist naturalist nat naturalist The Macaque monkeys monkey says Mr lilt Shel Shelford ord are highly Intelligent anImals and the tho Malays train them to pick coco coca coconuts coconuts nuts The modus operandi is as follows s U A UA A cord Is fastened round the mono mon monkey's keys key's waist and it is led to a COConut coconut a palm which It rapidly clun climbs It then lays hold of a nut nut and if it the owner Judges fudges the nut to be ripe for fur plucking he be shouts to the monkey which then twists the nut round and round till the stalk 13 is broken and lets it fall WI to the ground if the mon mon- monley monkey mon key key ley catches hold of an unripe nut nut the tho owner tugs tags the cord and the tho monkey tries another I have seen a Brok act u as a very effi- effi em dent fruit picker although the use uso of the cord was dispensed with Altogether the monkey being guided by the tones and inflections infections of his has masters master's voice Another reliable witness who actually hoe hae seen monkeys at work gathering coconuts is the w wife e of Dr Max Weber the great naturalist who was sent out by the Dutch government some years ago agoto agoto agoto to explore the waters of the East Indies L J I We lived lot for or a month at sj s thinks r r to descend think think- thinking in Sumatra she she says e d ing mg he had done in the book she ehe wrote describing V Vr nt enough but on her voyage wish a it h her A r G Gs s being spoken to husband Opp Site tite us z zt t t tf f 7 d he went to work was a Malayan famIly again with great greaton which owned two live Lam pong Lam M f w VIgor pl picked Jed out pong or apes apes- apes all the rIpe p oats nuts big impudent beasts a on the t r e e s So which had bad been x a a g W t taught tWISted them all to te pick coconuts SS wf to k koff off and then For this purpose a i s n 1 came down in a II band bands to which a long r e w j r thoroughly bad rope was W attached was rig t c sully sulky temper Ho He ss 18 tied around d the was walking w al kin g- g the body of thed tho rho y yr yx r x ri riy s y r ere erect e t and It ape and then the seemed discourteous animal was chased not to go up into the tree a d as sM t si and thank him Arrived there the f n Lot for all his lard bard ape ape seated himself y d toiL on a branch and 4 J s a 1 Robert Fortune Fortune to twist with his hands f C y mar e x an Englishman and feet y r of one oi the cocoa coco coconuts who spent many nuts nets that hung to years ears in m China the branch until the theA A young monkey imitating the work wort of tie the human gardeners gardener in a collecting botani botani- botanical stem broke and the fruit New York Yank park cal specimens to- to rc fell down he be had bad If It he dallied too long over his Ius work the strap around hIs bla body was jerked unsympathetically How now the ape knew which nuts he be was wag to pick remained a parade to me mc but a fruit never dropped that was wu not fully ripened Miss Isabella Bird Bird the well known woman traveler has lias the following to say any anyon on the subject A follower had brought a II an ape or monkey trained to gather coco coco coco- coconuts coconuts nuts nuts a hideous beast on very long legs when on all ill fours but capable of walk log int erect They called him faced dog a B baboon but I think they were wrong He has a short short curved tail and sable colored fur for He lIe Is Sa fierce tierce but likes or at nil ill events obeys his owner who held him hum with a rope fifty feet long At present he ho is only half tame and would go back to the jungle If he ho were liberated He was sent up a coconut tree treo which was heavily loaded with nuts m various v heard it asserted that monkeys were used in the gathering of ot tea leaves These animals it seems do not riot like to work said Mr Fortune Fortune and would not gather tho leaves willingly But when they are aro seen up amon amongst the rocks where the tho te tea tea bushes are growing the Chinese throw stones at them Ther There There- Thereupon upon Thero-upon upon the monkeys get very angry and commence breaking off the tho branches of the tea shrubs which they throw down at their assailants Gudger in a recent issue of Natural History What Is most interesting is the positive evidence e he be presents to sho show that the ancient Egyptians tJ Used ed ap apes s to help them In the harvesting of figs and coconuts to carry torches and to per per- perform perform per perform form probably many other kinds of use use- useful useful useful ful servIce service Among the paintings that have been uncovered on the walls of tombs in the valley of ol the Nile N oare are three wl which eh depict monkeys serving man in much the tho same someway 8 way that they are said to servo him in 10 Sumatra and other parts of the tha world day day to-day One of these paintings is from the tomb of and s reproduced in Maa Ma poro's Mas-poro's peros pero's History of or Egypt It represents says this distinguished Egyptologist Egyptologist Egyptologist gist men and monkeys gathering the fruIt ofa of a group of dom dam p palms Another shows monkeys moneys gathering feathering figs and now and then taking a mouthful of them As Egyptologists point out out fig trees have gnarled trunks are aro rarely more than sixt sixteen cn feet high and have bavo lImbs too weak to support mens men's weight So it was quite natural that the ingen ingell- ingenious ious Egyptians should have hav con conceived elved the tho Idea of sending tame Ime monkeys into the tho trees to gather the fruit for them Still S a thIr third painting punting shows monkeys handing down fruit from a tree to the tho gardeners below and of this tar Sir Ir Gardner Wilkinson has the following to say JaY in hIs great toot work on the manners and cus- cus customs customs cus customs toms of the ancient Egyptians Egyptian's Monkeys appear to have been heen trained to assist assiat in m gathering the tho fruit fruit and the tho Egyptians p EI-p represent them in ra the scalp scalp- sculptures sculptures tures handing down figs from the sycamore sycamore more trees to the gardeners below but but butas as might be expected these animals amply repaid themselves for the tha trouble imposed upon them hem and the artist artst has not failed to show how much more they consulted their own wishes than th those thoo o of their employers Many animals were tamed earned in Egypt for various purposes and Md in is UI country which lies hes to the south sonth of Abyssinia monkeys are 1110 still taught several useful accomplishments Among them is that of officiating as torch bearers at a supper party and seated iu a row on a raised bench they hold bold the lights l until the departure of th the guests and patiently await their own so- so repast re repast past as a reward for tor their services II- II I M y Q c C 0 0 C o C C C t 11 tI ii Ii f I y x 11 CS 1 r IL ah s I A monkey threading ing a 11 ne needle e and anel doing it much nacre more readily than most men can caD Sometimes a refractory subject fads faw in his accustomed duty and the harmon harmony tf of the party la Is for a moment disturbed particularly if an unruly monkey throws his lighted d torch into the tho midst of the ln unsuspecting guests but bot the stick and deprivation of food are aro tha the punishment ot of the tho offender and Md it Is by these theo is per perr per UI 8 0 arguments clone alone that they are prevailed upon to perform their duty in inso inso inso so delicate an office Can chimpanzees baboons and nd other othera a apes be trained to do some somo of our work lust Just is as s the ancient Egyptians trained and ond ondas andas as it is believed the natives of tf Sum Suma Sumatra a- a tr tra and various other parts puts of the world ore are training them to this very day This Thill is what scientists are eager to find out and it is a matter matter well worth their theU wh while c Although the worlds world's population b bD L D in increasing creasing faster than its available meat supply there continues to be bo a serious shortage of laborers to handle the he heavy lv or dirty or r in other ways loss lesa pleasant kinds of jobs johs Everybody knows S ho hov hard it is to find household 6 a rv nta and how the captains of industry are clam oring oong to have tho the Immigration resmie restrictions Lions removed so se that they will beAble be Able to hire enough ditch diggers and other common laborers As u education becomes more nearly cal uni universal versal vessel more and more of the tha worlds world's O J pop population o w will l be lifted to a piano far above dItch digging and floor scrubbing Then it will become imperative for or us to find some new way of getting thi thin thia vast amount of f menial work orl done either erther bj b machinery or by the use of trained apes or other animals Nobody who has watched the perform performances ances of trained monkeys in tho the circus ring or on the tho vaudeville stage can ean hale o I any doubts about about the high degree of their intelligence and tho the way they can be made with nth the right sort Bort of training to use their brains to do |